Africa

Orange wants to bridge SA’s digital divide with free WiFi initiative

Free WiFi services seem to be proliferating in South Africa, with startups like Project Isizwe and telecoms like Orange stepping up to connect the country’s…

Mxit offers CodeX sponsorship to help breed SA’s young coder generation

Mxit, the South African messaging app, is offering three sponsorships for the next intake of CodeX — the local programming apprenticeship school. Through this…

Facebook’s had to adapt its plans to give Africa free internet access

Rumour has it that Facebook is in advanced talks with Avanti, a UK based satellite operator, regarding a project that will see it provide…

Samsung, @iLab Africa unveil 8 new Kenyan developed apps

Samsung Electronics in partnership with @iLab Africa, a research and incubation facility that supports entrepreneurship programs in apps and software development, unveiled eight Kenyan…

South Atlantic’s first undersea cable will connect Brazil, Angola

Despite a bunch of noble efforts involving satellites, drones, and weather balloons, we still depend pretty heavily on undersea cables for the majority our…

Google will give $2 for every $1 you donate in fight against Ebola

Google has just announced a “public giving” initiative that hopes to raise US$7.5-million in donations in order to support the many international non-profits currently…

4G LTE broadband network set to launch in Rwanda

Rwanda is set to launch a high speed (4G LTE) broadband network on 11 November. The network, has been established through an agreement between…

Swapping paper for pixels: Kenya aims to digitize school curriculum by 2015

Kenya’s education minister has announced that his ministry is planning to digitize the entire school curriculum by 2015, a move that will see the…

MEF launches Africa office to showcase mobile innovation

MEF, a global community for mobile content and commerce, has launched a dedicated African office to help promote mobile growth and showcase innovation on…

Africa to spend $18.5bn on mobile data by 2016

Mobile data is about to explode on the African continent. In fact, it could represent as much as US$18.5-billion in revenue across the continent…

The trend continues: mobile money services keep growing in Africa

It’s been widely heralded as the medium for Africa: the mobile phone is giving people on the continent a means to do everything from…

Africa to have 1bn mobile subscribers by 2015

We all know that mobile in Africa is a big deal. It allowed countries to leapfrog some Western technologies and has fostered innovative products…

Google-backed project rolls out Wi-Fi hotspots in major Kenyan cities

Internet users in Nairobi and Mombasa in Kenya can now connect to cheap Wi-Fi on the go following a continuing roll out by search…

The challenges of ecommerce in Africa [Tech4Africa]

Building an ecommerce business in Africa is a markedly different process from other, more developed parts of the world as well as other emerging…

IBM taking a seriously big interest in Africa [Tech4Africa]

There are four key trends that are currently disrupting technology around the world says Tom Rosamilia, IBM’s head of global strategy. According to Rosamilia,…

Samsung’s solar-powered classroom laden with gadget swag is amazing

“One word: Wow!,” exclaims a student in a promotional video showing learners’ reactions to Samsung’s Solar Powered Internet School. For a group of students…

AfricaCheck: Africa’s ‘first’ dedicated fact-checking site

Africa’s first website set up exclusively to fact-check public debate launched today. Called Africa Check, the site was developed by the non-profit arm of…

Africa slow to adopt Windows 8

Analysts and Microsoft business have questioned whether Windows 8 could persuade African enterprises to switch over quickly or completely. Some companies have argued that…

Phone tech to enable rural Nigerians to surf the web in local languages

A phone technology called InternetSpeech could allow more than 100 000 illiterate farmers and traders residing in Nigeria’s rural areas to browse the web…

Google’s African affair: An internet giant puts its money where its mouth is

At the start of last year I wrote an article for Memeburn with the only slightly tongue-in-cheek headline: “Instead of smallpox Google is colonising…

8 African mobile money services that aren’t MPesa

No, I’m not going to talk about MPesa, you can read all about the Kenyan grandfather of mobile money here, here and here. Rather,…

What trends will take African tech to the next level?

Three years ago I decided to bring a major tech conference to Africa — Tech4Africa. The incredible personal journey that I have been on…

iGaming FAQ: Answering the Most Common Questions for South African Players

AI’s $4.8 Trillion Explosion – Will Africa Get a Slice of the Pie?

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AI in Recruitment: How Blue Pearl is Transforming Hiring for Modern Businesses

enza Secures $6.75M Seed Funding to Revolutionize African Payments

MGX’s $2 billion investment in Binance marks historic institutional backing

Acer Unleashes Beastly New Predator BiFrost and Nitro GPUs with AMD Radeon RX 9000 Series

Philips Evnia Drops Jaw-Dropping QD OLED Monitors: 240Hz, Ambiglow, and All the Good Stuff

Microsoft launches new Surface devices in new AI era

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